Raiders of the Broken Planet Reviews
An original and fun third person shooter with an art direction sharply above the average.
Review in Italian | Read full review
Raiders of the Broken Planet delivers a strong shooter experience. The combat of the game keeps you engaged, as you need to be ready to be flanked at any time. The campaign is short but sweet, and leaves you wanting more. The missions are challenging without being too tough, even playing solo. Looking forward to more campaigns being released.
Raiders of the Broken Planet is interesting, and is going to be a good game when it'll be completed. But by now, there's not enought content and the matchmaking isn't good.
Review in Spanish | Read full review
Raiders doesn't have mercy with rookies and it's not very friendly during the first hours. But once that barrier is overcome, you'll find one of the most unique and entertaining experiences in online gaming. Gameplay and lore show terrific potential, and we're eager to play the next campaign.
Review in Spanish | Read full review
Raiders of the Broken Planet is a game that, even though it has great ideas and personality, it features some terrible servers and very repetitive gameplay. The future could be bright for MercurySteam.
Review in Spanish | Read full review
A cool shooter with some great ideas - we just wish there was more of it to begin with
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Not only it's just „the first episode”, the game is still in the beta. For now, it seems like we'll get a solid co-op TPS with a couple of fresh ideas.
Review in Polish | Read full review
Raiders of the Broken Planet is a game that can be fun, but only if a number of prerequisites are met.
Raiders has some interesting ideas, but slips in its execution. While the gunplay is solid and the graphics and voice acting are both good, the repetition of the missions combined with the need to replay them for what little character customisation there is quickly takes the shine from it all. What remains is a middling game that misses its potential.
Cooperative, grindy sci-fi cover shooter with exciting approaches, which in the current extent and condition creates rather frustration than pleasure.
Review in German | Read full review
There are a vast number of improvements needed before the game could be considered worth playing on a regular basis, but with the right creative direction and some key changes to some major aspects of the game could indeed see it become a great title – eventually.
I'm still finding it hard to properly judge Raiders of a Broken Planet because of how new and sparse the current build is – with only a prologue and one pack of missions it can be daunting to get a season pass without knowing if the community will stay loyal for that long.
It's a terrible pity, as Raiders of the Broken Planet could have been a really interesting little shooter experience, and even now on the rare occasions when it works it is still some fun to play. But one does wonder if MercurySteam should just take the property, chuck in the game side and publish the cheesy action comic book they so clearly wanted to make.
Though Raiders of the Broken Planet brings some unique characters and ideas to the table, and can be a lot of fun either as an antagonist or with a full party, it's simply too frustrating to enjoy for any long period of time.
Don't bother unless you enjoy playing the same mission over and over again with no guarantee of any sort of pay off. The (very) few good things this game has going for it are completely dwarfed by the poorly implemented or flat out reprehensible systems that the entire experience hinges on.
Raiders of the Broken Planet has a lot of promise. The game currently only features 6 missions over 2 campaigns but has 3 more operations on the way. The incredible world and lore of this science-fiction universe were captivating but the issue was all the grinding.
Raiders of the Broken Planet is an ambitious and solid indie release on PlayStation 4 that does a lot of things right. MercurySteam managed to release a fun episodic game with offline and online modes while offering it at a fraction of the cost of other games. Being able to get campaigns as they release is interesting, and if you like the prologue you can dive in and get the Founder's Pack which makes it so that you get all campaigns as they release.
This a fresh third-person shooter with asymmetrical multiplayer and a cast of characters that's hard not to love. Even if its servers are basically empty and it includes microtransactions that belong in a free-to-play game.
Raiders of the Broken Planet is a fun third person shooter on PlayStation 4 that is trying to do things a bit differently. Some things work and some need some extra work, but overall, now that the game's prologue has changed into the Eternal Soldier, and after some rebalancing and polish here and there, the current version of the base game is an experience that has definitely been improved, and it does make it easier to see where MercurySteam is taking the story with subsequent campaigns.